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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL |
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WILLESDEN , an urban district
Middlesex , England, suburban to London, lying immediately outside the boundary of the county of London' (boroughs of Hammersmith and Kensington). Pop. (1881) 27,453; (1901) 114,811. It has increased greatly as a residential district
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Lane . The adjoining residential districts are Harlesden on the south
east
Metropolitan railway) on the north.At Domesday the manor of Willesden and Harlesden was held by the canons of St Paul's. In the 12th century it was formed into eight distinct manors, seven of which were held by the same I number of prebendaries. A shrine or image of St Mary (Our Lady of Willesden) was in the 15th century an object of pilgrim
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